[sldev] CAPTCHA to validate land sales.

Dimitrio Lewis dimitrio at dimitriolewis.com
Wed Oct 3 07:55:55 PDT 2007


> You will still have land bots.
>
> It's just that instead of an autonomous one, there will be a human
> filling out the captchas. Many people with nothing better to do could be
> available to fill them 12 hours a day, and the potential payout is more
> than worth ocasionally filling out a field.

True, although that would probably slow them down to some degree.  However, 
somebody would probably create a bot which could parse the image through 
captcha busting software without any input required from the owner, which 
would give that person even more of a monopoly than they had before.  I 
think the main focus should be on preventing mistakes as much as possible 
rather than dealing with the aftermath, and there's still work to be done in 
that regard. 



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